A young woman who crashed while driving without a licence has been jailed after trying to pin the blame on her sister.

Pooja Solanki was driving along Uppingham Road in Leicester on October 4 last year when she swerved around a cyclist and smashed into another car.

After stopping briefly, Solanki, who had been disqualified from driving after a motoring offence in December 2016, fled the scene without leaving her name but an eagle-eyed passer-by got her car’s registration.

Solanki (26), of Hungarton Boulevard, Humberstone, Leicester, received documents from the police, who intended to charge her with driving without due care and failing to stop at the scene of an accident, but she replied to the police stating her sister had been driving at the time.

What did Solanki do next?

When her sister received documents from police she asked Solanki what it was about and Solanki took the documents, promising to “take care of it”.

She then forged her sister’s signature - pretending her sister was taking responsibility for the offence - and returned the documents to the police.